Sunday, April 12, 2009

Hot loads.

Cranking up the old ammo factory for some practice .45acp loads.....after the first 12, just enough to work out the cobwebs, I noticed that the cobwebs were getting 9.5 grains of Titegroup under a 230 FMJ instead of 4.5 grains.

We're talking sonic 230s here. HOT loads. I moved the scale balance weight over a click to the right notch. Can't unbuild these. Crimped. Sure is pretty ammo. I go through 12 rounds in just a couple of strings shooting bullseye, but one of these suckers might be a gun-buster.

Maybe I could mail these to Somalia, care of "Pirate Abdul Mustapha." He probably packs a Sig 220 or knows someone who does.

Back to the drawing board. And into the deep trash, or somewhere good, with these.

Update: Inertia bullet puller. Sheesh. Took some beating and whacking but I got them apart. The slugs are marked up but not so marked up they can't be reloaded. Powder back in the trickler. Probably could use the primed cases.

I dont think we could, I know we can! IF (and that is unlikely) the inertia puller doesnt do the trick I have a collet puller that screws into the RCBS Big Max press that will pull the bullet out kicking and screaming. I've used it before to pull M852 bullets just to look at them and they were sealed in with tar!

You know, if you have one of those inertia bullet pullers, you could put the loaded round back into the bullet seater die and push the bullet down deeper into the case and then try and use the inertia puller on it. That usually works. Otherwise bring it over and I'll snatch it outta there so fast you wont even know it was stuck.

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